Google's New "App Inventor" Tool Means EVERYONE Can Make Android Apps

Google is launching a new tool called "App Inventor" to the public, which lets people make simple Android mobile apps with a drag-and-drop interface; no programming experience necessary.

The idea is that if everyone can be app creators -- not just app consumers -- Android could become a more useful, more ubiquitous platform than Apple's iPhone or RIM's BlackBerry, which require extensive programming experience to make apps for.